Derby authors hiring software engineers for next generation talent software
We are Brian Noguchi (https://github.com/bnoguchi) and Nate Smith (https://github.com/nateps), the authors of Derby and founders of Lever. Lever is redefining talent software, starting with applicant tracking for hiring. With Lever, we aim to set the standard for next generation web apps, and we are hiring software engineers who share our ambitions.

We are building our product with Derby both to benefit from its unique capabilities and to put the technology to the test. Out of the box, Derby apps render everything on the server and the client, work online and offine, and sync data immediately. Working at Lever means moving the ball forward on a product that our users love at the same time as contributing to the future of web app development. With your help, Derby will enable widespread creation of highly sophisticated apps as interactive as a document editor, as collaborative as an email client, and as quickly loading as a search engine.

After interviewing managers at Square, Twitter, Yammer, AirBnB, Stripe, and other great companies, we learned that applicant tracking tools are ripe for disruption. Limited visibility into hiring data frustrates engineering managers trying to grow their teams, and difficult to use tools frustrate interviewers and recruiters alike. This is a unique opportunity where companies are already eager to adopt new enterprise software.

Lever’s culture is rooted in pairing technology innovation with user-driven design. We work right next to 50 of our users, directly learning how we can make each of their days a little better with every code push. Rather than defining our product by a list of features, we have reimagined applicant tracking around the candidate-company relationship.

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As the first hire at Lever, you will take a defining role in the company. You will have flexibility to contribute across the technology stack.

* Design and implement a wide variety of product features
* Optimize search quality
* Architect backend infrastructure
* Administer servers
* Prototype data visualizations
* Test and deploy every day
* Be a primary contributor to Derby, Racer, and other open source projects

Technology:
Derby & Racer, D3, Node.js, HTML/CSS, Socket.IO, MongoDB, Solr, Git, and AWS

Location:
San Francisco, CA

Apply:
jobs+hn@lever.co

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We are located in our pilot customer’s office in San Francisco. In addition to the best user feedback a team could ask for, we also get three free meals a day, free snacks, an office full of talented engineers and designers to learn from, and a spectacular roof deck.

After graduating from Stanford in 2007, Brian co-founded Trendessence, which provided analytics technology and consulting for social media marketing. In addition to Derby, Brian authored http://everyauth.com/ and co-authored http://mongoosejs.com/

Prior to Lever, Nate was a Product Manger at Google with a focus on UI. He worked on Google Analytics, Google Images, and Google Search, and led the redesign of Google Images that launched in July 2010 (http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/20/google-images/, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JwhDjYbE6s)